Secret Bait at Twin Lakes on August 3

[AllAboutTheTrout]

Ants are small enough, so their eggs have gotta be teeny. Umm...obvious question...how does one get an ant egg on one's hook?

[Devious 1]

Ants are small enough, so their eggs have gotta be teeny. Umm...obvious question...how does one get an ant egg on one's hook?

By using a very small hook (i.e size 12-14) and by putting as many eggs as you can on a single hook.

Here is an interesting story from some old timers that fills in any gaps:

http://www.guidetohighway395.com/200...-ant-eggs.html

[Badfish2]

sounds cool and all, but what a hassle.. Garlic spray on a cigarette butt would trigger as many bites as ant eggs....with zero ant bites

[Simplyeman]

sweeet beard.

[AllAboutTheTrout]

That's a great story. Thanks for sharing that. I guess the ant egg thing is the real deal. It makes sense since I'm sure the ant eggs fall in streams and lakes and are a delicacy to trout. Can you imagine, in this day and age, how much trouble "Nellie" would be in if she forced one of your kids to get stung by ants? Times have changed.

[Rubble]

That article was Way Cool Devious........

Those of you who are Old like Me may remember Jed Welsh,(yes,of the pre-made Trout&Halibut rigs Fame)......who wrote for the Long Beach Press Telegram up until His death a couple years ago at age 90+....
He used to write about using Ant eggs & how the Natives had done so for Centurys........Rumour has it that the "Trout Crack" manufacturers did studies on the Feramones of the eggs in the R & D of todays Products......

[Badfish2]

I know berkley did a lot of their testing on their products in the sierra

[adiablo420]

dood if that works that would be great...thanks for the tip !

now to find a red ant hill.

yea, what he said..

[Badfish2]

red ant hills are everywhere in the sierra.. take a short walk, you'll find one